Biography Herbert F. Royle

Herbert Royle was born in Manchester in 1870 and studied art under John
William Buxton Knight (1843-1908). He lived firstly in Southport, later
moving to Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire and subsequently to Nessfield, near
Ilkley. Royle exhibited annually at the Royal Academy from 1894 for
almost fifty years, and from 1900 at the Royal Scottish Academy, the
Glasgow Institute and at the Royal Society of Painters in Oils. Each
year he holidayed in the Scottish Highlands and during these trips
painted many Scottish loch and harbour views. He often painted en plein
air and travelled by bicycle seeking subjects to paint, with his easel
strapped to his bicycle and with a hot potato in his pocket in winter to
warm his hands.